TRENTHAM DAYS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 19

TRENTHAM DAYS

Thursday, Friday and Saturday

SILVER RING GALLOPS BRILLIANT MILE

Cuddle For Australia

Friday

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The Watcher.)

The death of the King has caused a postponement of the opening of the Wellington Racing Club’s summer meeting, which was to have taken place to-day. The meeting will now be held on three successive days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and for Thursday the timetable has been put back half an hour, the first race to start at 12.45 instead of 12,15, and all other races correspondingly 30 niinutes behind the previously-arranged schedule.

Yearling Sales. The yearling sales will be held on Thursday and Friday mornings prior to the faces, starting at 10 a.m. on Thursday and at 9 a.m. on Friday. Cuddle Leaving on Friday.

Cuddle who has been entered for the leading events in Australia in the autumn, will be shipped to Sydney on Friday en route to Melbourne. After racing at the autumn meeting at Flemington she will go to Sydney and race there at the Easter meeting, after which she is to return to Trentham. T. R. George is unable to make the trip with the mare and she will go over in charge of one of his head lads, A. Tudor, but her training there will be under the supervision of George Price, who is at present in New Zealand and will be returning by Friday’s steamer. Tinker Gets Cup Ride.

Cuddle’s departure immediately following the Wellington Cup does not mean that she will not be a starter in that race. She is a certain runner, and arrangements have now been finalised for her rider. The mount has gone to the Auckland horseman, A. Tinker. Brilliant Silver Ring.

Conditions were excellent for training at Trentham yesterday morning, the weather. being calm, cool and clear. All tracks were available, including the outside of the course proper, and while there wag a great deal of work there was not much Of an outstanding nature. The highlight of the morning was a brilliant mile by the Cup candidate Silver King. Paired with Argentic, and both carrying light weights. Silver Ring ran the first half in 48. by which time he was a length or so to the good. Continuing with his smooth, effortless action. Silver Ring ran the full distance in 1.39 J, and was not doing his best. Argentic, hard, ridden, wtis not far away at the finish,- only dbodt a neck, so his effort also was excellent, but Silver Ring's horseman was sitting still all the way. It was the best mile since Nightmarch on the eve of his winning the Trentham Gold Cup, and naturally attracted the attention of track watchers to Cup prospects. He will meet Argentic on two stone Worse, terms in the Cup. bitt 11 e can carry Weight and altogether .it was a fair indication that this good-class gelding is in his best form. Argentic, is a good truck wOrker, but a good judge who saW him m Auckland says he bears an improved appearance. Cup Horses Work.

Spiral was well clear of Senior at. (he end of six furlongs, the last half m 51. Spiral, who had his trainer in the saddle, looks bright ami fresh and worked well. Grand Jur.V galloped oh the filougfa. •frhich was slower than the grass, and

he tqpk 1.3 for five furlongs, the last half in 50, a good effort.

Might Goes Well Again. Might and Cuddle galloped a mile and a quarter, and timed from post to post, which is considerably over the distance, they ran 2.14 j. The last mile is accurately measured and it took 1.434. Cuddle was clear of Might With six furlongs gone, but turning into, the straight Might drew up Solidly and Cuddle, dropping the bit, was beaten home, the last half having taken 52J. Might again worked very pleasingly, and although Cuddle was beaten and 1 did not finish generously, sba is it gross mare and performed similarly on the eve of both the New Zealand and Auckland Cups. Hawera Fair.

Lowen berg and Knock Out ran four in 49 1-5, and Queen of Song, going alone, ran a mile in 1,444. She begaii slowly and took 544 for the first half, but she was travelling very well indeed at the finish, and it was a really good gallop. J. W. Jennings will ride her if she starts in the Cup.

Good Gallop. Plato was superior to Dollar Prince over six in 1.17, the last half in 50. Plato worked well. . Princess Doreen continued her improvement by finishing in front of After Money at the end of six in 1.18, but both Went well and are in- good order for racing.

Useful Work. Corroboree was' drawing away from Blue Garter at the end of five, tile last half jn 49|. He worked very pleasingly. Ethiop was well ahead of 'Whyte Melville at the finish of five in 1.5, but neither was knocked about, and they were carrying good weights. F. McHugh will fide Ethiop in the Highweight. Ben Braggie sprinted three on the course proper. Kindheart did not make the trip.

The Two-year-olds. Several two-year-olds used the course proper, including Moquette and Impersonator, the former hitting out boldly: Double Gift and Nurse Nightingale, the former much too good for her mate; Missal and Mandamus: Laughing Lass and Toorak; Brilliancy and Black Fox.

Sprint Candidates. Diatomous, after a very slow first furlong, finished_up five by running the last half in 49 1-5. Visitors.

T. Lloyd was out with Tout Je Monde and Silver Jest, and other fresh horses working were Symcony, Cerne Abbas, Custos, Heritage. Sunder, Birthday Party. Jovial Prince, Windscreen, Aotopeen, and Full Throttle. The remainder of the southern contingent, consisting of Knockfiti, Tunneller, Studley Royal, Great Star. Violenta, Rebel Chief, Mid Golden Dart arrived latef in the morning.

Sale of Ktibckflii. Knockfih, who was to have, gone up for sale this week, changed hajicls on the eve of departure from Lyttelton, the pfice being understood to have been in the vicinity of £6OO. The buyer is a Mr. W. Scott, of Christchurch, and she has been taken over by Mrs. J. Campbell, joining Tunneller on the trip. Trainer Absent.

W. McDonald will .have charge of the tw o-vear-old, Studleyßoyal, ot T*ehtnilin» as his trainer, F. Holmes, left on Sunday for Bluff, where he will join the steamer leaving for Melbourne. From there lie will travel to Perth, for the big trotting fixture,' to'be held early ilext month.

Duke of Gloucester Cup. The Waikoiiaiti Racing Club is the first South Island club to apply for the privilege of staging the next contest for the Duke, of Gloucester Cup. The club desires to place the race on. the programme for its next New Year’s Day meeting. The allocation of the privilege, however, will hot necessarily follow precedence of application. Undoubtedly there will be Other clubs as well applying to hold the race next season, and when all applications are in the executive committee of the Racing Conference will finally decide the venue on the merits of the applications. The Waikoiiaiti club is in a very .sound financial position. It has made substantial HicreaseS in stakes dur-

ing the last few years, and intends to carry on with its progressive policy for next year’s programme.

Caretaker Retiring. After a record of thirty-three years as custodian of the Egmont Racing Club's racecourse at Hawera, Mr. A. Morse will retire after the club’s meeting next month. Mr. Morse has seen the club through its varying vicissitudes, from the time the Egmont CUp was for a stake, of £2OO until its peak day When its value rose to £l2OO. When Mr. Morse first took charge, the number of horses in work on the trades was a round dozen, with few conveniences. Steadv progress and improvement were made, and a few seasons back, before the depression, over a hundred horses were being worked regularly on the course. Ilawera became a noted training centre and the preparing ground for classic and big handican winners throughout the Dominion, a fact that Mr. Morse can look back on with pride. The Hawera racecourse at present is one of the most complete plants outside the big centres for the training of racehorses. It possesses two plough tracks, a trial grass, and a grass two-year-old track, besides hurdle and sand tracks, the latter enabling horses to be worked in all weather. There is. also the course proper and a trotting track. Mr. Morse has been instrumental in the progress of the course to its present state of efficiency. In addition, Mr. Morse, who is an expert sheepman, has been responsible for the grazing and fearing of early lambs, etc., thus contributing in great measure to the upkeep of the property. The Egmont Racing Club, while regretting parting with Mr. Morse’s services, has, as an appreciation, granted him three months’ leave and a pension of £1 weekly for a period of three years.

Clarence O’Neill. The late Clarence O'Neill, whose death is reported froifiXAtistraliii, was the first to adopt the extreme crouch in Australia when riding over hurdles, his style creating a sensation. He got a bad fall and broke a thigh, which left him with one short leg. He came back to New Zealand after months iu the hospital oil the same boat as Wairiki, who also had a short leg as a result of breaking a shoulder when running in the Melbourne Cup. O’Neill did very little riding afterward, but he was “crouching" over hurdles just when L. 11. Hewitt Was making a success of it on the flat.. He then set up as a trainer in Tasmania and carried on until a few months ago, when ho retired through ill health. Clarence O’Neill was a brother of V. O’Neill, who won the Melbourne Cup with Spearfelt and the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles with Longlands. (

Victorian Jockey Premiership. With K. Voitre and 11. Skidmol’e head and head, the finish to Melbourne jockeys’ premiership promises to be desperate. Each of the leaders up to January 10 had 27 wins since August 1. Voitre had 147 mounts and Skidmore 135. Horses ridden by Voitre earned £23,501 in stakes. Those ridden by Skidmore have a grand total of £10,090. These figures are purely Victorian. Voitre has ridden with success iu Sydney this Reason, One of his Wins being the Epsom on Synagogue.

AnsWers to Correspondents. “Rex Belmont," 'Wellington: (7) £1 18/-. “Pop,” Wanganpi: (1) £2/2/-. (2) £2/3/-. (3) £2O/0/6. “K.tt.K.”: £2/10/-. “Keen Sport,” Otaki: (1) £l/13/6. (2) £2/7/-. “Reader,” Waipiikurau: £l/13/6.